Pros
Relatively easy to get to office
Cons
1). The office politics is the worst that i've seen. In the project teams, it is clear that your personal success is incumbent on behaving like a sycophant when you are engaging with your team leader. If you are uncomfortable or un-sure how to do this, observe your team leaders interactions with his manager and with his peers. Essentially, if you want to get on, laugh at any putrid jokes offered up by your betters and nod along at the right times, irrespective of whether it's good for the business or not, and spend your days plotting on how to get your peers into trouble. Appears to be the Claranet way. Observe how cliques form and morale plummets. People seem more concerned with each others salaries, progress and opportunities to complain to middle management. Middle management have built this culture where there is a lack of transparency, trust and issues (often fabricated, in lieu of actually doing any work) are resolved through anonymous co-ordinated complaints. Great if you want to create an atmosphere of suspicion and non-collaboration. Awful if you want to run a successful business. 2) Unprofessionalism-relates to the clique issue above. All the cues from middle management in the Project office seems to be along the lines of "if you're in with the right people, you can spend your days unproductive and finger-pointing". For a project office, the lack of project awareness and terminology is shocking but rank un-professionalism is good bedfellows with a race to the bottom when it comes to employee retention. The good workers who know what a well managed project looks like will see the writing on the wall. The employees who've been with the company are invariable more adept/interested in sabotaging colleagues than actually managing customers expectations as they have been tacitly rewarded for such behaviours in the past.
